Do you know that there are two ways to collaborate with others on your presentation using PowerPoint? Emailing each other about updates and edits on your presentation can get pretty confusing fast because it’s hard to keep track of the latest changes. So what can you do instead? Below are two things you can do to make collaboration a lot easier when it comes to presentations.

1. Add comments to presentation – By adding comments to a presentation, all parties involved can have a chance to write their opinions on how to make the presentation better. They can suggest changes and edits that need to be made.

2. Compare two presentations – Once you have two similar presentations that went through suggests, edits and changes, the Compare feature will show you the differences between the 2 presentations.

Academy Award winner producer, director and screenwriter Billy Wilder can teach us a thing or two about presentation. Below are some things we can apply to make our stories stick to our audience:

The audience is fickle.What works for your audience today may not work for them tomorrow. So know your audience well. It may be your story your telling but be sure that your audience can resonate with it.

Grab ’em by the throat and never let ’em go.Don’t dilly dally when you start. Begin with a bang! Get them immediately hooked.

Develop a clean line of action for your leading character. Make sure that the arc of change in your story is clear and meaningful.

Know where you’re going. Just like what Stephen Covey wrote in his book The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, “Begin with the end in mind.” You must know where your story is headed.

Do you know how to moving the axis labels when a PowerPoint chart/graph has both positive and negative values? Well, by default PowerPoint will the horizontal axis labels near the axis. Typically, this is how it works. However, when there is a combination of positive and negative numbers, the bars get to interfere with the labels.

But don’t fret because you can do something to make this right. Here is what you do:

Select the chart.

Right-click the horizontal axis text and choose Format Axis.

In PowerPoint 2013: In the taskpane on the right, click the arrow next to Labels to expand that section.

In PowerPoint 2007, 2010 and 2013: Click the Label Position or Axis Labels drop-down list and choose High. (Another option that works in some situations is Low.)

2. Judging – Don’t let your being judgmental get in the way of honest talk. When you judge people, they won’t be able to hear what you have to say.

3. Negativity – Isn’t it hard to converse with someone who always sees the negative in things? Negativity will just keep us from seeing what’s possible in the seemingly impossible.

4. Complaining – Be mindful of your words and actions. Don’t fall into the downward spiral of complaining and always being negative. Be hopeful and positive instead.

5. Excuses – Take full responsibility for your mistakes and avoid blaming others. By apologizing and admitting defeat instead when you know you have done something wrong, you will be seen as courageous.

6. Exaggeration – Getting the habit of exaggerating things is tantamount to lying. Avoid it at all costs.